Brooms Standing Up Alone

If you ve already tried this rest assured that you re not alone.

Brooms standing up alone.

The broom can stand by itself because the center of gravity is directly above the edge on which it balances. It s just a matter of fanning out the bristles like a tripod and. Getting a broom to stand alone has nothing to do with the date on the calendar in case you were sucked in by the original tweet. Okay so nasa said today was the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull.

This broom standing phenomenon has nothing to do with equinoxes or planetary. There was a cnn news clip from 2012 that actually dispelled the notion altogether since there is also a theory that the spring equinox causes the same effect as people claimed the elusive feb. Yesterday a tweet quickly went viral claiming that nasa declared february 10 the only day a broom can stand up on its own because of the gravitational pull cue a plethora of twitter users pulling off magic tricks in the middle of their kitchens by making a broom stand up by itself. It also has nothing to do with the vernal equinox another day of the year when this magic supposedly happens.